About
Art and creating has always been a part of my life and while I don't consider myself an artist in the classic sense I find, that I identify as a hair artist and wonderfully curious about all the arts. I am a designer of hair and a sculptor of the fibers that grows out of your head, and I fucking love it. Hair has offered me a wonderful outlet for my creativity that no other medium has. It combines a little science with art. I grew up in Southern Arizona, attended Northern Arizona University, so after 23 years I got the urge to find somewhere new, so I moved… to CENTRAL ARIZONA, JUST KIDDING. I did move but it was out of my home state. My first exposure to Seattle was a brief day trip with my sister as we recovered from a long family cruise (two weeks trapped in close quarters with family will exhaust anyone). We only spent a day there and most of it we spent lost, looking for a donut shop, which was great once found, and that was all it took for me to fall in love with Seattle. Roughly a year after my one day there I packed up and moved. I lived in a very small kinda gross apartment in Belltown and began work at Pike Brewery downtown. It was there I met so many people and one of them needed a hairstylist for a photo shoot they were involved in. I have always been the HAIR person, for friends all throughout high school and even college and slowly I began helping on small photoshoots in Seattle. A photographer suggested I get my license, that was the first time I saw the beauty industry in a different way. It was an industry I had never considered for myself but soon I was researching how to become a licensed cosmetologist. I went to the Gary Manuel Institute and the moment they put those sharp objects in my hands, I knew I was in the industry that I would build a career in, my career, my future. Once licensed I continued my education by completing an apprenticeship with talented mentors in both color and cutting techniques. I have been lucky enough to work backstage at New York fashion week first with an Aveda Team and then returned for another season with the Rene Furterer brand. In 2016 I started leasing a chair from a lovely in salon called Belle Marie in the Ravenna area of Seattle. There I learned how to use the techniques I had acquired to grow my individual brand and expanded my knowledge of the BUSINESS side of the Beauty Industry. I love editorial work as well as working behind the chair and love that this industry allow me freedom and independence.
Recently in January 2020 I partnered up with a talented friend of mine Laura Larson, whom I met in cosmetology school, to open our very own SALON. Salon Filament is the wonderful brain child of our partnership. We are located in the Montlake neighborhood of Seattle and have already set up our booking and our website, so please feel free to check it out.
I am both excited and nervous for this next chapter in both my career and life. I can only hope to continue to work hard and create.
